Friday’s College Baseball Top-50 Scoreboard

March is coming in like a lion throughout college baseball, with all of the top-50 teams in action from the CB360 Composite National Rankings – highlighted by seven head-to-head matchups. There’s a total of 48 games on Friday’s schedule involving CB360 top-50 teams (top-52 this week, due to a multiple-team tie at the bottom of the rankings), with (29) Notre Dame and (31) Virginia Tech both slated to play twice today in action today at the Irish Baseball Classic in Cary, N.C. (#44 Creighton also will play a DH vs. BYU). front-page photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton

Some weeks within the CB360 top-50, the head-to-head matchups are not that noteworthy but that’s certainly not the case as we head into the first weekend of March, with six of the seven showdown series being must-see material. For starters, former Cal State Fullerton coach George Horton is brining his (7) Oregon team to Goodwin Field for a series against the unbeaten Titans (cb360 #18). There’s also a pair of classic rivalry series on tap – (6) South Carolina at (27) Clemson and (23) Miami at (33) Florida – while the highest-rated matchup in terms of combined ranking is (1) North Carolina vs. (14) Rice, at Minute Maid Park (home of the Houston Astros).

Upstart Pepperdine (cb360 #32) – coming off a series win at Texas A&M – is preparing for another tough task with a series at (16) Oklahoma … while (25) Texas at (11) Stanford gives fans a matchup beween two traditionally elite programs. (15) Mississippi at (46) Florida International is but an afterthought, as Friday’s seventh head-t0-head matchup between CB360 top-50 teams.

There were two games on Thursday involving CB360 top-50 teams – including (26) Arizona State’s 3-2 win over (2) Arkansas (in Surprise, Ariz.) – and those results are listed at the bottom of this page, with full recap info./links.

The CB360 top-50 scoreboard pages will be updated each day and throughout the weekend to include linke for various live-coverage options, team game notes/weekly releases, and an assortment of postgame offerings (recaps from both teams, final stats in HTML & PDF format, photo galleries, video highlights, and postgame video/audio). Results for each game will include linescores (R-H-E), updated team won-loss records and status of each respective series (i.e. 1-1, sweep, etc.).